Wednesday, May 25, 2016

5-25-16 Jive

Good evening, it's Wednesday, May 25th. This is the Jive at
Five, our daily community calendar and rundown of nighttime programming, here
on 88.1 FM WESU Middletown. By day, WESU offers a diverse program of talk radio
featuring NPR, Pacifica, independent and local public affairs. Week nights and
weekends, WESU offers the best in free-form community programming. Thanks for
joining us!

I'm Lara Hetzel, WESU Production Director.

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us close out our Spring pledge drive by making a donation in support of the
service WESU provides. The sooner we raise the monney we need, the sooner
we can get back to the good stuff. We are 2/3 of the way towards our goal.
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Now, here’s a rundown of what's happening in our area this week:

Here in Middletown, tonight (Wednesday) brings the
Connecticut Poetry Society Monthly meeting to the Russell Library’s Hubbard
Room at 6pm. The Veteran’s writing group meets at the Library on Thursday
nights at 7pm. www.russelllibrary.org

The Middletown Scottish Country Dancers meet every Wednesday
at First Church on Court St. in Middletown Call 860-347-0278 for details

Tonight also brings the first public forum for the
Middletown on the Move project, which aims to get the community involved with reclaiming
brownfields for public use. Middletown
residents are encouraged to participate. The form takes place at The Dekoven
House located at 27 Washington St www.middletownctonthemove.com
for more info!

Tonight, down in New Haven at Café Nine, you can catch PAPERWHITE
with special guests Cheerleader and Mission Zero. Tomorro/Thursday at Café Nine
you can catch a night if indie rock with The Color Orange, Lea, and Spectral
Fangs. Café Nine’s early 5pm set on Friday, features SHELLYE VALAUSKAS
& DEAN FALCONE. Later on Friday night, Cafe Nine presents a night of
hardcore rock with Intercourse, heavy breath, MouthBreather, and MudSkipper.
Café Nine’s Saturday afternoon Jazz Jam Session is with George Baker &
Friends this week and it begins at 4:30pm. Saturday evening, at Café Nine
Twin Lakes Records presents a Willie Nelson Songbook tribute featuring Frank
Critelli, Elisa Flynn, Lys Guillorn, Mercy Choir, No Line North, Brian Slattery
and more. “The Sunday Buzz“Matinee presented by Cygnus Radio & Cafe 9
features THE SAINT JAMES TRIO for a 3pm set this week.
Sunday evening, Café Nine Stage features a night of alternative hip hop
featuring JE DOUBLE F, OLD SELF, ZAK G, THE FOREST ROOM, and JULES BAXTER. www.cafenine.com

At Bar in New Haven, tonight (weds), Manic Productions
presents Fred Thomas (of Saturday Looks Good To Me). Superhuman Happiness and
Art School Girls share that bill. Thursday night Manic
presents The Ready Set, Crash The Party, Five Stories Falling,
and 4 Door Theatre at the Space in Hamden. http://www.manicproductions.org/

Tomorrow/Thursday night in Middletown, the Middlesex Drum
Circle gathers at The Buttonwood Tree. Friday night brings Carrie Johnson
& Julia Russo sharing a bill with Belle of the Fall. After both
groups perform separately, they will join forces for a closing set. On
Saturday morning, The Buttonwood offers a morning class of Transitional Tai Chi
at 9:15 am followed by the Aligned with Source meditation at 10:30am. This
Saturday evening, The Buttonwood presents The Uri Shaham - Mark Kaplan Quartet
for a night of creative takes on the Jazz song book.http://buttonwood.org/

Also here in town at Oddfellows Playhouse, The Junior and
Teen Rep Company actors continue their production of The Wiz! Performances are
scheduled for Thursday through Saturday nights, this week, at 7 pm. Tickets are
available through the website – www.oddfellows.org by
email at info@oddfellows.org, or phone at 860-347-6143.

Back down in New Haven at Toad’s Place, Thursday evening, JADAKISS and
BEANIE SIGEL stop by perform on the main stage. AceIsWorking and ANoyd
opening the show.. Friday night SHAKEDOWN plays the THE DEAD AND BEYOND at
Toad’s Place. Friday and Saturday night bring dance parties to Toads.www.toadsplace.com

The Middletown Symphonic Band will open its 2016 outdoor
concert series with a program of patriotic music as part of the Riverfront
Recapture Concert Series. The concert will be held in the amphitheater at Great
River Park, in East Hartford, beginning at 7 PM on Saturday, (Rain Date:
Sunday, May 29). You are invited to watch and enjoy music to celebrate the
Memorial Day weekend while overlooking the Connecticut River. Admission is
free. Details at http://middletownsymphonicband.org.

Here in Middletown this Sunday The Cypress Grill on South
Main Street celebrates their 90th anniversary with live music starting at noon.
Learn more by calling 860 346 3367.

The City of Middletown and the Middletown Council of
Veterans will be sponsoring the annual Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 30,
2016. The theme this year is "Honoring Gulf War Veterans."

The parade will start after the Middletown Vietnam War Vets
Chapter conducts their annual 9am wreath-laying ceremony at on The Washington Street
Veteran's Green Memorial.

The Main Street parade will start around 10:30 am at Spring
and Main Street, move south on Main Street to Union Green at Pleasant and Main
Street. There will be a ceremony on Union Green after the parade.

Now here's a rundown of cinema, off the beaten track in Central Connecticut:

Hartford’s Real Art Ways, is now showing Sonic Sea, a
film about protecting life in our waters from the destructive effects of
oceanic noise pollution. Representatives from the Cetacean Society
International will be on hand before and after each screening to educate,
advocate and answer questions about the marine environment. Friday, Real Art Ways begins a run of Our
Last Tango, which tells the life and love story of Argentina’s most
famous tango dancers Maria Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes, who met as
teenagers and danced together for nearly fifty years until a painful separation. www.realartways.org

Tonight in Hartford, Trinity College’s Cinestudio, begins
their run of Richard Linklater’s Golden Globe-winning comedy, Everybody
wants some. Sunday, Cinestudio kicks off their annual LGBT film festival
which runs all week and kicks off with a presentation of short films by men
=,on Sunday. Shorts by females will run on Monday. www.cinestudio.org for
details.

Now here's what's on the air tonight on WESU as we continue
through the first week of our new Summer Program:

Right after the Jive, Stay tuned for

Drive Time
Delights with Big Bent Presenting a free form mix of musical treats, new and
old, across a wide range of genres.

From 6-6:30pmstay tuned for Think Twice Radio
working to to reassert the
"watchdog" role of the media by ramping up coverage of Connecticut
issues in a nonpartisan manner.

From 6:30-8pm its Fusion Radio with James Fusion - for a 90 minute live techno mix.

At 8m Mike Nyce keeps the beat going with his 90 minute live
mix of deep underground house music on The Warehouse .

At 11pm
Jack Sullivan is in the house for 2 hours bringing you a free form mix of music.

From 1-3am, stay tuned for Back Down
the Bayou a Louisiana and roots music show featuring Baton Rouge Blues, New
Orleans funk, indigenous jazz and a whole lot more.

At 3 am
it’s time for The Hour of Slack from The Church of the SubGenius Radio Ministry

The
compendium of the best and newest from all SubGenius radio & stage shows,
bands, ranters, media barrage collage artists, plus the weirdest of the indie
audio underground.

At 4am you can cath the BBC world report before we kick off
tomorrow’s program with Morning Edition from NPR at 5am.

That’s all for today’s Jive At Five. If you missed anything, you can find the
script online at wesufm.org/jive. And tune in each and every weekday at 4:55
p.m. to hear about what’s going on in the community and on the air right here
at WESU 88.1 FM, a community service of Wesleyan University since 1939.

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